From: "S. Manning" <scriptor-aFO/2INALiozYggVrLCuDg@public.gmane.org>
To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Determining that a Pandoc Variable is the Empty String
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 21:50:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27db87ff42ad3fe1822144a366498919@ageofdatini.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DA455835-3B72-4022-A761-E7A96E904EEA-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
That works for me! I will add it to my 'lab notes'
On 2023-03-07 21:44, John MacFarlane wrote:
> Try
>
> tags: []
>
> in your YAML if you don't want the for loop to be executed.
>
>> On Mar 7, 2023, at 8:41 PM, S. Manning <scriptor-aFO/2INALiozYggVrLCuDg@public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to add a tag system to my static site which I generate
>> with Pandoc templates. Adding a tags: variable in myPage.yaml is
>> easy, but then I want to add links from pages with the tag to the page
>> for that tag. Code like:
>>
>> $for(tags)$
>> <a href="https://mysite.org/tags/$tags$.html">⇐ back to
>> $tags$</a>
>> $endfor$
>>
>> adds a link even if the tags variable is empty ("tags: " in the YAML
>> file).
>>
>> How can I check that the tag is not empty or a null string or however
>> Pandoc defines it?
>>
>> https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#interpolated-variables alludes to
>> variable types such as string and list, but does not define them or
>> explain how to get the attributes of complex variables such as lists.
>>
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2023-03-08 4:41 S. Manning
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2023-03-08 4:44 ` John MacFarlane
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